Phantom fares

[birch]

http://news.discovery.com/human/psychology/taxi-drivers-claim-ghost-passengers-in-japan-160209.htm

In one incident a driver had picked up a female passenger near shinomaki Station who had asked him to take her to the Minamihama district, an area that was badly damaged during the disaster.

The driver asked her if she was sure she wanted to go there as the area was almost empty, to which she chillingly replied "Have I died ?" When he turned around the woman had completely vanished.

 

[Magical Realist]

Very interesting. The article said this same experience occurred to six other cabbies. More sad than scary though. That in the afterlife there is this intense longing to return to our home, as in a dream that is repeated every night.

 

[Russ_Watters]

More sad than scary though. That in the afterlife there is this intense longing to return to our home.

I'm just upset that in the afterlife, I won't have a car. Maybe if they bury me with/in my car?

Also, if you commit theft (skipping out on a taxi fare) while dead, does that preclude entry to heaven?

 

[birch]

There are several red flags that the story is implausible, beginning of course with the question of why a ghost would need to take a taxi anywhere. The origins ascribed to the ghosts by the taxi drivers is also curious: none of the reports have the ghosts explicitly stating that they were victims of the 2011 disaster

This type of logic is unrealistic and kind of silly . And the 'explicitly stating they were victims of 2011 disaster' is hilariously comedic. If people
often operate illogically and randomly its unrealistic to attribute or expect even more logic to a 'phantom'.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/new...d-by-2011-japan-tsunami/ar-BBp6dI3?ocid=fbmsn

Discovery evidently didnt bother even to read the article busy with condescension because it wasnt five years after but a few months after the disaster it started to occur.

 

[Edont Knoff]

I'm just upset that in the afterlife, I won't have a car. Maybe if they bury me with/in my car?

Looking at ancient graves and tombs, it seems to be sufficient to have a car model or even a car symbol buried with one, to gain a car in afterlife. The car itself cannot be transferred either, so the symbol is the important part.

But people say here, "There are no pockets in your last shirt", meaning, you can't take anything with you if you die.

My personal belief follows that notion. Death is the end, there is no afterlife. Still, such reports make me think again and again, if I have made a mistake in my conclusion. But if there is an afterlife, and so many people are dying every day, why are there so few ghosts in comparison?

 

[birch]

But if there is an afterlife, and so many people are dying every day, why are there so few ghosts in comparison?

Because everyone is different just as in life? Some want to interact and some dont? Some people may be more open unwittingly to picking these things up in their conscious? Maybe they dont exist as in its not a ghost but maybe a remnant of an energy imprint? Who knows? But they experienced something or lying or imagining.

 

[birch]

Looking at ancient graves and tombs, it seems to be sufficient to have a car model or even a car symbol buried with one, to gain a car in afterlife. The car itself cannot be transferred either, so the symbol is the important part.

Because it gives them the concept so they can create that in their dimension. Just like how we formulate concepts here seemingly out of thin air. Maybe we are always swapping ideas floating about like recipes. Who knows? I just made that up. The phantom fares is a wacky story if its even remotely possible.

 

[Magical Realist]

This type of logic is unrealistic and kind of silly . And the 'explicitly stating they were victims of 2011 disaster' is hilariously comedic. If people
often operate illogically and randomly its unrealistic to attribute or expect even more logic to a 'phantom'.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/new...d-by-2011-japan-tsunami/ar-BBp6dI3?ocid=fbmsn

Discovery evidently didnt bother even to read the article busy with condescension because it wasnt five years after but a few months after the disaster it started to occur.

Not only is it silly logic, it is a logical fallacy called argument from incredulity. One encounters this fallacy over and over again in topics like these: because I can't understand something or it doesn't make sense, it must therefore not be true. That's a fallacy. Frankly I accept that reality is full of mysteries everyday. But that doesn't mean there's no reality.

 

[James R]

The article said this same experience occurred to six other cabbies.

Did they all know each other?
Did the other 5 come forward after the first one got media coverage?

 

[Magical Realist]

Did they all know each other?
Did the other 5 come forward after the first one got media coverage?

They must've hallucinated their cab fares. Must happen all the time eh?

 

[James R]

The ghost paid her cab fare before vanishing? How thoughtful of her.

 

[sideshowbob]

I'm just upset that in the afterlife, I won't have a car.

You'll have to take the bus, with Bigfoot and the leprechauns.

 

[Silver80]

I find these urban legends fascinating, they're usually linked back to some kind of social anxiety about something. I'm wondering if I can get away with not paying a cab fare by just looking a bit pale and flaky and asking if I'm dead before making a run for it...